If you have been reading this blog for a while, you may remember when I ran down the trail to make it in time for my friend to give birth to a healthy baby boy. Fifteen months later, Hunter Hansen made his maiden voyage to the top of Mt. LeConte. It was great seeing my friends and getting hang out with "lil' man". I am sure this is the first of many trips. Who knows, maybe we have another LeConte crew member in the making. They had a great day for the hike down the mountain. The high was 60 degrees with a low of 40. It sounds as though today is going to be a repeat.

Sounds like pretty great weather there.
Great story about the little guy, lets hope he learns to appreciate the mountain as much as all us other hikers. Never seems to fail what the parents love, the kids don't. I do have 1 out of 3 that almost loves it as much as me, so consider myself lucky. As I learned the day I only called 6 times Oct. 1st to get in. And he yells at me, What did you quit callng for??? Then I knew hmmm, I do have a partner for someday hiking the AT. And lucky for us, we did get picked in the lotto for next year.
Good day, Great looking group of hikers there.

Brian N bama

10/23/2012 02:18:33 am

Seriously Debi? you only had to call 6 times? I had to call over 1000 times. Question is Debi, would have called that many times? Of course you would have! You are like me, obsessed with that mountain.Can't wait for Nov 9th. Not sure how much snow I will bring from Alabama but we will see.LOL

No Brian, I only called 6 times. Then decided to just hope for the best. And I got picked for the lotto. The first time I was up there in 2009 I called 416 times and almost hung up. I was thinking it was going to be busy again and it rang.
Yeah, Oct. 1st I was reading all the post, I got in, I can't get in. still busy, called 500 times..... My son was beaming as much as I was when I got the letter that we got in a couple of days latter.

Brian N bama

10/23/2012 09:10:03 am

Haha, and when I did get through on the 2nd day, I had already been picked in the lotto. Can't wait to get back up there. I want to spend a night in each month of the year on top. So far we have oct, nov, april and june. Will get may next year. Hopefully a shelter visit or 2 between now and then.